[webkit-dev] setTimeout and Safari

[Simon Fraser]

On Oct 7, 2010, at 12:23 PM, Steve Conover wrote:

> So that I don't have to guess whether a page is "done" rendering.
> Many developers defer rendering using setTimeout, I'd like to wait
> until setTimeouts are done and then just after check the result.  This
> would be superior to guessing at a sleep interval in the calling code.

Are you trying to choose a good time to snapshot the page?

There are many things that can cause the page to keep changing; chained
setTimeouts, setInterval, CSS transitions and animations, SVG animation,
plugins etc etc. This is not a simple question to answer.

Simon

> 
> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Simon Fraser <simon.fraser at apple.com> wrote:
>> Why do you need to know if there are no more pending setTimeouts?
>> 
>> Simon
>> 
>> On Oct 6, 2010, at 5:52 PM, Steve Conover wrote:
>> 
>>> Hoping someone on -dev might have an idea about this...
>>> 
>>> -Steve
>>> 
>>> 
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: Steve Conover <sconover at gmail.com>
>>> Date: Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 11:19 PM
>>> Subject: Re: setTimeout and Safari
>>> To: webkit-help at lists.webkit.org
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Actually I am discovering what one might describe as a "normal"
>>> problem here...how to know when the setTimeout's are done firing.  The
>>> ideal would that I could somehow drill into the dom implementation and
>>> ask whether any setTimeout events are waiting to fire (and stop
>>> polling if the queue length is zero).
>>> 
>>> I'm sure that's way off in terms of how this is actually implemented.
>>> Does such a thing exist?  Could someone please point me to the
>>> relevant sourcecode?
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> Steve
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 10:36 PM, Steve Conover <sconover at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Sigh.  Please disregard.  After an hour of troubleshooting, I sent
>>>> this email, and two minutes later realized the problem was bad js
>>>> (blush).
>>>> 
>>>> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 10:22 PM, Steve Conover <sconover at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> I hope this is the right place to be asking this question.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'm using the cocoa api, and am able to load a web page in a WebView.
>>>>> However I have some javascript in the page that uses setTimeout to
>>>>> cause a function to fire 100ms into the future - but the page loads
>>>>> and ignores the setTimeout's.
>>>>> 
>>>>> How do I get my setTimeout's to fire?  I suspect this has something to
>>>>> do with the Run Loop, but my experiments so far with various parts of
>>>>> the Run Loop api have been failures.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Steve
>>>>> 
>>>> 
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